The first-of-its-kind project will gather de­tailed in­for­ma­tion of all the ap­parel fac­to­ries such as name, lo­ca­tion, work­ers em­ployed, prod­uct man­u­fac­tured, ex­port des­ti­na­tion and cus­tomers or brands it caters to. The au­then­ti­ca­tion of the data­base gen­er­ated will be crowd­sourced from the pub­lic. This will en­sure avail­abil­ity of pre­cise and lat­est in­for­ma­tion about any com­pany en­gaged in gar­ment man­u­fac­tur­ing.

Sid­diqur Rah­man, Pres­i­dent of BGMEA, be­lieves that the project will fur­ther com­ple­ment the ef­forts the as­so­ci­a­tion is tak­ing to­wards a re­spon­si­ble sup­ply chain in the coun­try.

The first ‘dig­i­tal map’ will go pub­lic in Dhaka, Bangladesh next year. The fi­nal map, which will in­clude the coun­try’s 20 ap­parel man­u­fac­tur­ing re­gions, will be out in 2021.